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Game designer of Braid and The Witness. Partner in IndieFund.

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    1. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Jan 31
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      People keep telling me Linux "just works" now. I bought a System76 laptop with PopOS preinstalled. On the first day of use, third time I wake it from suspend, the lock screen has gone crazy buggy ... there are many instances of it at different levels of slide-upness, covering

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    2. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Jan 31
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      half the screen. I am unable to use the laptop without hard-powering it off. GG guys. (Also, the trackpad and mouse 'buttons' on this laptop are freaking terrible, but, that has not much to do with Linux).

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    3. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Jan 31
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      This is actually the most successful Linux attempt that I've had in about 15 years. Still doesn't just work.

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    4. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Jan 31
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      P.P.S. The number of condescending comments I get on postings like this, every time, is very large. If you are going to make a comment like this and are 20-something years old, don't even. In college I used to boot up my Linux machine with a big ascii Bob Dobbs every day.

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      Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Jan 31
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      If you make smug "Linux just perfectly works for me because I am so smart" comments, Bob thinks you are a pink. Thanks bye.

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        2. James Widman‏ @JamesWidman Jan 31
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          yep. "It-works-for-me" is a form of survivorship bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias …

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        1. Matthew G‏ @_gumpt Jan 31
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          A blog post that describes the attitude pretty well: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/ …

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        1. Bryan W. Wagner‏ @bryanww Jan 31
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          I've had tons of issues too. It just has not been good for me as a personal development env. Sure, great, repeatable behavior for running web servers. But without commercial pressure, so many personal computing problems just never seem to get addressed.

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        1. David Maziero‏ @dgmdavid Feb 1
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          in Linux terms it's "I use arch, btw" meaning "look how smart I am"

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        2. rstat1‏ @rstat1 Jan 31
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          I actually agree with this. Anyone who says Linux "just works" in a desktop setting, has never used it that way or has some sort of special unicorn HW. It doesn't just work, it never has in the decade+ I've been using it.

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        3. James Payne‏ @jamoflaw Feb 1
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          On supported hardware it does work for me, admittedly when you get a shonky bit of HW sometimes you are bang out of luck, but still, it is and has been my daily driver for years now and it's been great to be honest!

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        2. Joseph Lawson‏ @joekiller Feb 1
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          Linux works for me because I work for it. Windows just works but it doesn't work for me.

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        3. Joseph Lawson‏ @joekiller Feb 1
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          PS I run Arch Linux and usually build on a Dell.

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        1.  🐦thenameless‏ @holland_da 4h4 hours ago
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          https://blog.burntsushi.net/system76-darter-archlinux/ … the "suspend" section of this post has some more information on what sounds like the similar issue: thunderbolt drivers are funny with wakeup (sorry if youve already found a solution) youre right, "just works" isnt the case yet, but its improving!

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